Another Hallmarck Miracle

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now suddenly you’ve been cured
from a life with the unclean and absurd
after a hundred days of me you fast
everyone you knew said we wouldn’t last

you spent five years to dream up a sign
that many see the tumor of me benign
surgically i must be removed
in another five years when you’ve improved

now suddenly i am denied
of the girl i was fit to be tied
no warning free of injury insult felt
spare the rod when you’ve got the belt

took seven years to spend the last three
to put in place your plan to shut out me
knowing full well i would take too much
can’t break my heart unless its crushed

now suddenly no one can tell
mourning under incense and bell
i’ve been grieving over you for years
lost to monsters and panic pill tears

took ten years to give me what you had
the belief you’re the reason you’re sad
you trained me to believe that i took
every best chapter from your book

Happiness is a thing
made of promise and ring

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written march 3rd, 2020

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